The Labyrinth of the Ancients

This article is about the level 50 Alliance Raid. For the Feature Quest, see Labyrinth of the Ancients.

The Labyrinth of the Ancients

Level

50 (Sync: 50)

Item Level

50

Difficulty

Normal

Party size

Alliance
24 man • 3 6 15

Unsyncing

Allowed

Time limit

120 minutes

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Tomestones

 100 

Req. quest

Labyrinth of the Ancients

Entrance

Mor Dhona (X:35.7, Y:20.0)

Location

Labyrinth of the Ancients

Region

Mor Dhona

Patch

2.1

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With the help of Cid nan Garlond, members of the expedition to the Crystal Tower have successfully penetrated the defenses of the Eight Sentinels. The ancient Allagan structure is not so easily entered, however, and the Labyrinth of the Ancients now awaits the fellowship of NOAH as they seek the ultimate prize.

— In-game description

The Labyrinth of the Ancients is a level 50 raid introduced in patch 2.1. It is the first part of Crystal Tower.

Objectives

1. Activate the Allagan teleporters: 0/1
2. Clear the Pools of Obllivion: 0/1
3. Defeat the bone dragon: 0/1
4. Clear the Walk of Lament: 0/1
5. Defeat Thanatos: 0/1
6. Clear the Walk of Fire: 0/1
7. Defeat the king behemoth: 0/1
8. Defeat Phlegethon: 0/1

Beginners Key Points (Essentials Mini-Walkthrough)

Owing it's lack of an ilvl sync, the Crystal Tower alliance raids have become tediously easy duties that are often completed with little difficulty, to the point where mechanics on several bosses are ignored or outright skipped. As a result the guide below includes mechanics that players will normally not experience unless on Minimum ilvl mode.

Alliances

Sometimes you fight as one big group, as three separate groups ("Alliances"), or as one big group with separate goals for each group.

• Understand which Alliance you are; it's important for later. For reference, Alliance A starts on the left, Alliance B in the middle, Alliance C on the right. You can double-check which Alliance you are, after the mission starts, because it'll be the "name" on top of your party list.

Allegan Teleporters

Allegan Teleporters in this mission can help you catch up with the rest of the group if you are left behind. If you are not left behind, ignore them.

• If you die during the fight and wish to go back to the beginning instead of waiting for a Raise, you can use the teleporters to catch up with the team.

Navigating The Labyrinth of the Ancients

The mission starts with a three-way fork, but the three Alliances do NOT split yet here. At the first fork everyone will go left. You'll be back at this fork later, and everyone will go right; then back here a third and final time and everyone will go middle.

The first path (again, left) leads to a series of three fights that culminate with the Bone Dragon boss (fourth fight). The three Alliances will fight together during this sequence. If you are not a tank, just enjoy these four fights.

Bone Dragon

The Bone Dragon is the main enemy for this fight, but periodic Platinal skeletons will spawn to buff the dragon.

One main tank can hold aggro on the dragon, while the other tanks pull the skeletons into groups so they can be more easily destroyed with AoE damage. Ideally, the Bone Dragon is tanked at the edge of the arena in order to prevent the Platinal skeletons from reaching the boss, but in some cases the dragon is tanked in the middle of the arena.

The Bone Dragon will "die" three times during the fight and then resurrect itself. During the first two times, it is very import to keep skeletons away from the boss. They will run towards the dragon's corpse, and will potentially do fatal damage to the Alliances. If a couple skeletons make it, damage will be minimal, but healers will need to be prepared if most of the skeletons make it to the dragon. During the third "death" of the dragon, additional flying enemies will spawn, but these can be mostly ignored. Focus damage the Bone Dragon until it is completely down.

Please note that the tank alone won't be enough to keep the enemies in the middle, so make sure there are also a good amount of strong dps characters keeping the minions' numbers and health low for when the boss dies.

Atomos Mini-Bosses

You'll teleport back to the entrance and take the right path this time.

The next fight will be fought separately by each of the three Alliances, and as you go down the path you will clearly see floating letters "A" (left), "B" (center), "C" (right) indicating where each Alliance needs to go. Make sure you go down your Alliance's path, and don't start the fight before everyone has arrived (if you're not sure, let someone else lead the charge). If there are not enough Alliance members distributed among the paths, it is possible to wipe the raid.

Each path has a platform and an Atomos that will spawn mobs. The platforms will glow a color that will match a corresponding Atomos for one of the other Alliances. At least four players from each Alliance must stand on the glowing platform near the bottom of the stairs otherwise the Atomos for another Alliance will become invulnerable. (Alliance A unlocks damage to Alliance B's Atomos, Alliance B unlocks damage to Alliance C's Atomos, and Alliance C unlocks damage to Alliance A's Atomos)

Ideally, healers and ranged dps should and stand on the platform, while tank and melee dps attack the Atomos. Depending on party composition, dps with the highest HP or damage should attack the Atomos (if there isn't enough melee). While the adds spawn, the tank should drag them back to the platform so the remaining Alliance members can damage them. The players on the platform can then kill the mobs, while the rest of the team focuses on Atomos.

If an Atomos dies, players may still need to stand on the platform so the other Alliance groups can finish mechanics. Once the light on the platform fades, it is no longer required to stand on it.

Thanatos

After the Atomos, you'll fight Thanatos with everyone (Alliances A, B, C) together again.

Only one Alliance at the time will be able to attack the main boss throughout the fight. The Alliance that is able to attach the boss will receive a tether from the Magic Pots and a buff called Astral Realignment that indicates that they are transparent. Alliance A receives Astral Realignment first, followed by B and then finally C. Only the Alliance that is currently transparent is able to attack the boss - if other Alliances try to attack it, the boss will be invincible to them.

For Alliances that are not transparent, attack and destroy all adds that spawn during the fight. Tanks will need to alternate on who is the Main Tank in based on the changes in the transparency buff.

Thanatos: Magic Pots

If the Magic Pots start to take damage and move away from the platform, healers should completely top off the Magic Pot in order to return it to it's former location. DPS should destroy any adds that attack the pots. If the Magic Pot is destroyed, that Alliance will not receive the transparency buff.

Vassago Mini-Bosses

Teleport back to the entrance and take the middle path.

Each Alliance takes one Vassage each - no tank should hold aggro on more than one Vassago at a time, and the Vassago should not be stacked. If the mini-bosses are not kept separate, it can potentially wipe the raid.

During the fight, adds will periodically spawn. These adds must be destroyed - if they reach the middle, they will exploded do damage to everyone. If too many explode, it will potentially wipe the whole raid. The tank does not need to grab aggro on the adds that spawn - they can stay focused on the Vassago.

During the fight, adds will spawn. If you are a dps character, make sure you kill these adds (bomb-type enemies) as soon as possible -- if they reach the middle, they will do potentially fatal damage to everyone. Tank can stay focused on the Vassago.

Once the Vassago adds are destroyed, the bomb in the middle of the room will become targetable. Destroy the bomb in the middle of the room to move to the next level. If enough damage is not done to the bomb in the center of the room, it will explode and wipe the raid.

King Behemoth

Next enemy will be King Behemoth. Throughout the fight, players will be marked with a green marker - these players will be hit with a comet. These comets must be spread around the platform. Do not place the comets directly in the boss hitbot. Comets can be place in max-melee range or max-caster range.

During the fight, Behemoth will cast Meteor. Players must stand line of sight behind the comets in order to avoid the attack. This is a oneshot mechanic that will destroy any players not behind a comet. Tanks are not able to invuln this attack.

Iron Giants and other adds will spawn during the fight. If the Iron Giants are not destroyed, they will wonder around the platform and destroy the comets. The off-tanks should aggro the Iron Giants and hold them in place for the DPS to burn down.

Phlegethon

The final boss in Labyrinth of the Ancience is Phlegethon. Take note of the platforms on the outside of the room. Each Alliance should know where their platform is throughout the fight: Alliance A is left, Alliance B is center/at the entrance, Alliance C is towards the right.

The main tank will hold the boss in the middle of the room. Phlegethon will cast a few raid-wide and AoE attacks that can be easily avoided. A claw will spawn on each of the platforms and trap one player. The rest of the group must destroy the claw add in order to free the trapper player.

When the boss casts Ancient Flare, immediately run to the Alliance platform on the outside of the room. Any players left in the room when the caster resolves will be instantly killed. If enough people do not stand on the platforms, the whole raid will be destroyed.

Destroy any adds that appear on the platforms outside of the room and the shield around Phlegethon will drop. Run back into the arena and continue damage on the boss.

While the boss should be tanked in the center of the room, occasionally it will be tanked closer to the entrance of the arena - which will make it more difficult for Alliance A and C to reach their platforms during Ancient Flare. If this happens, after the claws are destroyed - Alliance A and C can begin running back to their platforms. Ancient Flare is typically cast not long after the claws are destroyed, and this will give the group enough time to reach the platforms.

Bosses

Bone Dragon

Updated Labyrinth of the Ancients Guide

Labyrinth of the Ancients Guide Part 1

Labyrinth of the Ancients Guide Part 2

Bone Dragon is the 1st boss of the Labyrinth of the Ancients. Players will encounter the Dragon when they take the left path from the entrance. Bone Dragon must be killed 3 times before it is finally defeated.

The arena has platforms similar to previous rooms. Poison will occasionally fill all lower areas of the room so be aware of this. The boss will spawn 3 waves of skeleton adds. Each group should stand in a separate side of the room and pull one add to the outside of the room on a platform. Each add must be killed on a separate platform. Once the bone dragon dies, all skeleton adds will respawn and move towards the dragon. If two skeletons were close to each other when they died, they will move too fast to be killed. Each skeleton that reaches the boss will do 1500 unblockable damage to the raid. This phase will repeat once. The second time the dragon comes back to life, he will spawn floating eyes instead. These should be picked up by tanks but dps should focusing on killing boss instead of adds then the dragon will die for good this time.

• Tank the Bone Dragon on the center platform. This allows for an even spread of adds around the room, while minimizing confusion on where to pull the adds as 1 spawns per "path". This will also reduce damage taken by the DPS, as they will spend more time on the raised sections out of the poison.
• Kill skeletons on different platforms, kill skeletons before they reach dragon.
• Pick the floating eyes, leave them with tank only

Atomos

The raid will need to divide into their 3 groups: 1 for each path, which each has a platform. 4 people need to stand on each platform (preferably including 2 healers) to allow the other groups to kill Atomos. Atomos does not need to be tanked but will continuously spawn adds. The tanks need to position these adds within range of the DPS on the platforms; alternatively, a regen effect on the forward tank/DPS will automatically let the healer pull the adds to the platform if no one in front touches them.

Note: Do not stand on the pads before the alliance has all arrived, that will start the raid and force the late players to teleport into the left chamber.

• 4 people stand on each colored platform. The other four focus on killing Atomos.

Thanatos

Thanatos is the 3rd boss of the dungeon. Players will encounter the boss when they take the right path from the labyrinth entrance.

Thanatos is a ghostly iron giant that is surrounded by three Magic Pots on the corner of his chamber. The Magic Pots are friendly mobs, and should be healed if they're damaged. If all three die, then you will be unable to harm the boss and will wipe.

Thanatos is “ghostly” and cannot be harmed ordinarily. At the beginning of the fight, one of the Magic Pots will shoot green lines out to several alliance members, giving them an buff called Astral Realignment. The first group to receive buff is always A. Astral Realignment allows you to deal damage to the boss. A tank with the buff should pick up the boss immediately, and a tank swap should occur whenever a tank picks up Astral Realignment and the one on the boss loses it. Thanatos does have a cleave, so he should be faced away from the group and the pots.

Anyone who doesn't have Astral Realignment should focus on killing the adds that spawn throughout the fight. They will charge the Pots and attack, and occasionally will have a red line connecting them to a pot. Anytime you see this, these adds must be killed immediately. While that red line is active, Thanatos will be pulling the Pot to himself with a giant Holmgang chain -- if he gets it to him, he will kill it pretty fast. Once the adds connected to the Pot die and the Pot is healed, it can escape back to its safe spot.

This fight progresses fairly straightforwardly from here, just repeating the basic mechanics until he dies or all three Pots die.

• If you have Astral Realignment, DPS the boss. If you're visible, kill adds. Healers should keep the pots alive.

Allagan Bomb

Allagan Bomb initially does nothing. Each group takes one of the large sword adds. Those Vassagos WILL NOT aggro anyone automatically, so MT should stand in front of each adds to avoid the boss running to the middle. The boss will periodically spawn balloon adds that need to be killed before they explode (high priority). In addition, a Napalm add may spawn and will have the highest priority to kill. The boss can be damaged once the 3 adds are down.

A Vassago will get invulnerability if it has too little HP compared to the healthiest Vassago.

• MT should stand in front of Vassago before starting fight
• Kill Priority for adds: Napalm first, Balloon second and Sword third.

King Behemoth

King Behemoth is the 3rd boss of the labyrinth. Players will encounter Behemoth when they take the center path from the entrance.

Each tower should be covered by one ranged DPS or healer, activating it when it begins to glow; DPS priority is Iron Giant/Moving adds, and then boss. King behemoth will target a few players with a comet (green mark above head). These players need to run to the center and drop the comet to be used later. Adds will continually spawn and attempt to reach the towers. These need to be killed as soon as possible. In addition, an iron giant will spawn that will try to destroy the comets. The giant needs to be killed before all comets are destroyed or you will wipe. When King Behemoth stands up, he is casting meteor. The entire raid needs to drop what they're doing and get behind a comet (put a comet between you and him). Rinse and repeat and the fight is done.

Phlegethon

Phlegethon is the final boss of Labyrinth of the Ancients. The boss room is unlocked from defeating the other 3 bosses.

Phlegethon has only 1 big move to watch out for: Ancient Flare. Each group should take a position ahead of time (A on the left, B center, C on the right). At around 40-50% HP, Phlegethon will move to the center and start casting Ancient Flare. Each group needs to immediately move to its assigned platform. Doing this will put up a barrier to block his 'Ancient Flare' attack, which is otherwise a wipe. At around 5-15% HP, he will do this again; run back to the platform to repeat the mechanic or burn him down (do so if he starts the cast with < 6% HP).

During the fight adds will spawn, and should be killed. Iron Hand adds stun a nearby target.

• Have each group stand on one of the circles the adds spawned from to block Ancient Flare.

Loot

See also: The Labyrinth of the Ancients Armor

Bone Dragon

• 10
  
  Allagan Tomestone of Poetics

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Ballad Boots	Feet	80	CBlue	1
Ballad Crown	Head	80	CBlue	1
Crimson Hat	Head	80	CBlue	1
Crimson Shoes	Feet	80	CBlue	1
Crown of Light	Head	80	CBlue	1
Fuma Gantai	Head	80	CBlue	1
Fuma Kyahan	Feet	80	CBlue	1
Onion Boots	Feet	80	CBlue	1
Onion Mask	Head	80	CBlue	1
Royal Crown	Head	80	CBlue	1
Royal Shoes	Feet	80	CBlue	1
Sabatons of Light	Feet	80	CBlue	1

Thanatos

• 20
  
  Allagan Tomestone of Poetics

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Ballad Gauntlets	Hands	80	CBlue	1
Ballad Sarouel	Legs	80	CBlue	1
Breeches of Light	Legs	80	CBlue	1
Crimson Breeches	Legs	80	CBlue	1
Crimson Celestial Gloves	Hands	80	CBlue	1
Fuma Hakama	Legs	80	CBlue	1
Fuma Tekko	Hands	80	CBlue	1
Gauntlets of Light	Hands	80	CBlue	1
Onion Gauntlets	Hands	80	CBlue	1
Onion Sarouel	Legs	80	CBlue	1
Royal Breeches	Legs	80	CBlue	1
Royal Celestial Gloves	Hands	80	CBlue	1

King Behemoth

• 30
  
  Allagan Tomestone of Poetics

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Armor of Light	Body	80	CBlue	1
Ballad Boots	Feet	80	CBlue	1
Ballad Corselet	Body	80	CBlue	1
Crimson Shoes	Feet	80	CBlue	1
Crimson Vest	Body	80	CBlue	1
Fuma Koromo	Body	80	CBlue	1
Fuma Kyahan	Feet	80	CBlue	1
Onion Armor	Body	80	CBlue	1
Onion Boots	Feet	80	CBlue	1
Royal Shoes	Feet	80	CBlue	1
Royal Vest	Body	80	CBlue	1
Sabatons of Light	Feet	80	CBlue	1

Phlegethon

• 40
  
  Allagan Tomestone of Poetics
•   Phlegethon Card (Drops at a fixed rate)

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Allagan Catalyst	Material	N/A	ABasic	1
Armor of Light	Body	80	CBlue	1
Ballad Corselet	Body	80	CBlue	1
Ballad Crown	Head	80	CBlue	1
Ballad Gauntlets	Hands	80	CBlue	1
Ballad Sarouel	Legs	80	CBlue	1
Breeches of Light	Legs	80	CBlue	1
Crimson Breeches	Legs	80	CBlue	1
Crimson Celestial Gloves	Hands	80	CBlue	1
Crimson Hat	Head	80	CBlue	1
Crimson Vest	Body	80	CBlue	1
Crown of Light	Head	80	CBlue	1
Faded Copy of Hubris	Orchestrion Roll	N/A	ABasic	1
Faded Copy of Tumbling Down	Orchestrion Roll	N/A	ABasic	1
Fuma Gantai	Head	80	CBlue	1
Fuma Hakama	Legs	80	CBlue	1
Fuma Koromo	Body	80	CBlue	1
Fuma Tekko	Hands	80	CBlue	1
Gauntlets of Light	Hands	80	CBlue	1
Onion Armor	Body	80	CBlue	1
Onion Gauntlets	Hands	80	CBlue	1
Onion Mask	Head	80	CBlue	1
Onion Sarouel	Legs	80	CBlue	1
Royal Breeches	Legs	80	CBlue	1
Royal Celestial Gloves	Hands	80	CBlue	1
Royal Crown	Head	80	CBlue	1
Royal Vest	Body	80	CBlue	1

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Dimension Blade Fragment	Material	N/A	ABasic	1

Rewards

When originally released, players could receive only one reward item per week for completing duties in The Labyrinth of the Ancients. Weekly limits were lifted in patch 2.2.

Each party in the alliance will receive its own treasure chest, the contents of which will be identical regardless of the route taken.

• Players cannot open a treasure chest belonging to another party.

Achievements

This duty is associated with the following achievements:

Name	Points	Task	Reward	Patch
You Call That a Labyrinth	10	Complete the Labyrinth of the Ancients.	-	2.1
Mapping the Realm: Labyrinth of the Ancients	10	Discover every location in the Labyrinth of the Ancients.	-	2.1

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